IIRC you need to use ‘line’ to set ‘paragraph‘ properties of fields…
Sent from my iPhone > On 23 Jun 2022, at 19:29, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Craig wrote: > > > Richard wrote: > >> I had hoped the paragraph-level formatting options introduced in > >> v5.x would help, but alas as far as I can tell I can only set the > >> backgroundColor of a run of text, not the full cell. > > > > I think this was discussed on the forum a while back. I do not believe > > you can do what you want without another control overlying the “rect” > > of the “cell”. > > Thanks. I could get away with setting the backgroundColor of the whole line, > but that does the same as setting the backgroundColor of a "cell": it draws > the color only beneath the portion of the line that contains text, leaving > the rest blank. > > The borderWidth and borderColor paragraph properties work as expected, > affecting the full line whether it's filled with text or has no text at all. > > But backgroundColor as a paragraph setting feels broken, as it works the same > as setting that property for a chunk rather than for the field. > > From the v5.5.4 Release Notes: > > - The backgroundColor property allows the color of the content area > (inside any paragraph border) to be filled (note that strictly > speaking this property is not inherited, but the effect is the same > as if it was as the background of the field is rendered before the > paragraphs are so the background color at the field level will > ‘show through’ to the paragraph if the paragraph has no background > color). > > - The borderWidth property determines the width of the border to draw > around the paragraph. > > Pretty much all the other paragraph-level formatting options work just their > their field-level counterparts, but of course limited to the specified > paragraph. > > So I'm surprised the backgroundColor was added in such a way that it appears > to do nothing we didn't already have with setting backgroundColor of chunks. > > I was hoping I was just using it wrong. > > Here's how I set it in my tests: > > set the backgroundcolor of paragraph 2 of fld 1 to yellow > > Unless there's a different syntax I should be using, it would appear the > paragraph-level implementation of backgroundColor is unfinished, no? > > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
